developers, including those developing proprietary software, without any
license fees or royalties.
-The official ftp site is:
+The official download locations are:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk
+ http://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk+
The official web site is:
http://www.gtk.org/
Information about mailing lists can be found at
- http://www.gtk.org/mailinglists.html
+ http://www.gtk.org/mailing-lists.php
+
Installation
============
See the file 'INSTALL'
-Release notes for 2.10
-======================
-
-* The hexadecimal Unicode input feature has been reworked. It no longer
- blocks the use of the sixteen Ctrl-Shift-<hex digit> key sequences. Now
- it only uses Ctrl-Shift-u.
-
-* A memory leak in GtkStyle handling has been fixed. This may expose bugs
- in third-party widgets which forget to call gtk_style_attach() in their
- realize functions.
-
-Release notes
-=============
-
-* GTK+ 2.6 supports clipboard persistency. To make use of this feature,
- a clipboard manager following the specification at
- http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/clipboard-manager-spec
- must be running. A sample implementation of such a clipboard manager
- is available at
- http://people.imendio.com/andersca/archives/clipboard-manager-0.3.tar.gz
- Applications can use the function gdk_display_supports_clipboard_persistence()
- to find out if clipboard persistence is available.
-
-* Notification on clipboard ownership changes via GdkOwnerChange events
- requires the XFIXES X extension. Applications can use the function
- gdk_display_supports_selection_notification() to find out if ownerchip
- change notification is available.
-
-* The icon theme code in GTK+ 2.6 follows the freedesktop.org icon theme
- specification. Setting the XDG_DATA_DIRS environtment variable may be
- necessary if your icons aren't installed in the default location
- /usr/share/icons.
-
-* The icon theme code in GTK+ 2.6 can make use of mmap()able cache files
- to avoid a lot of disk searching overhead. GTK+ includes a utility named
- gtk-update-icon-cache to generate these cache files. For further details,
- see the gtk-update-icon-cache man page or the GTK+ documentation.
-
-* To reduce code size and improve efficiency, GTK+, when compiled
- with the GNU toolchain, has separate internal and external entry
- points for exported functions. The internal names, which begin with
- IA__, may be seen when debugging a GTK+ program.
-
-* The following functions have been deprecated in GTK+ 2.6:
- gdk_pango_context_set_colormap
- gtk_cell_renderer_editing_canceled
-
-* The new GtkFileChooser widget emphasizes simplicity and thus does
- not provide a navigation entry by default when opening files.
- Experienced command line users will likely want to make heavy use of
- the location dialog brought up by the Control-L key shortcut.
-
-* The GTK+ libraries use an '_' prefix to indicate private symbols that
- must not be used by applications. On some platforms, symbols beginning
- with prefixes such as _gtk, _gdk, and _pango will be exported
- from the library, on others not. In no case can applications
- use these private symbols. In addition to that, GTK+ 2.6 makes several
- symbols private which were not in any installed header files and
- were never intended to be exported.
-
-* The gdk_pixbuf_xlib library included in the contrib/ directory
- and the framebuffer GDK backend included in the gdk/linux-fb directory
- of GTK+ are provided on an as-is basis and have not been tested at all.
- No guarantees about the degree of workingness or about future
- compatibility are provided.
-
-* On Unix, the assumption of GLib and GTK+ by default is that filenames on
- the filesystem are encoded in UTF-8 rather than the encoding of the locale;
- the GTK+ developers consider that having filenames whose interpretation
- depends on the current locale is fundamentally a bad idea.
-
- If you have filenames encoded in the encoding of your locale, then you
- may want to set the G_FILENAME_ENCODING environment variable:
-
- G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@locale
- export G_FILENAME_ENCODING
-
- (Earlier versions of GLib 2.x required a different environment variable
- setting; G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 to achieve the same effect; this
- is still supported, but G_FILENAME_ENCODING is preferred.)
- Best integration of GTK+ 2.6 with the environment is achieved by
- using a UTF-8 locale.
-
- On Windows, filenames passed to GTK+ should always be in UTF-8, as
- in GLib 2.6. This is different than in previous versions of GTK+
- where the system codepage was used. As in GLib, for DLL ABI
- stability, applications built against previous versions of GTK+ will
- use entry points providing the old semantics.
-
- When compiling against GTK+ 2.6, applications intended to be
- portable to Windows must take the UTF-8 file name encoding into
- consideration, and use the gstdio wrappers to access files whose
- names have been constructed from strings returned from GTK+ or GLib.
How to report bugs
==================
Bugs should be reported to the GNOME bug tracking system.
-(http://bugzilla.gnome.org, product gtk+.) You will need to create an
-account for yourself.
-
+(http://bugzilla.gnome.org, product glib.) You will need
+to create an account for yourself.
+
In the bug report please include:
-
+
* Information about your system. For instance:
- What operating system and version
- - What version of X
- For Linux, what version of the C library
And anything else you think is relevant.
-* How to reproduce the bug.
+* How to reproduce the bug.
+
+ If you can reproduce it with one of the test programs that are built
+ in the tests/ subdirectory, that will be most convenient. Otherwise,
+ please include a short test program that exhibits the behavior.
+ As a last resort, you can also provide a pointer to a larger piece
+ of software that can be downloaded.
- If you can reproduce it with one of the tests or demos built with GTK+,
- such as demos/gtk-demo/gtk-demo, that would be most convenient. Otherwise,
- please include a short test program that exhibits the behavior. As a
- last resort, you can also provide a pointer to a larger piece of software
- that can be downloaded.
+* If the bug was a crash, the exact text that was printed out
+ when the crash occured.
-* If the bug was a crash, the exact text that was printed out when the
- crash occured.
+* Further information such as stack traces may be useful, but
+ is not necessary.
-* Further information such as stack traces may be useful, but is not
- necessary. If you do send a stack trace, and the error is an X error,
- it will be more useful if the stacktrace is produced running the test
- program with the --sync command line option.
Patches
=======
-Patches should also be submitted to bugzilla.gnome.org. If the patch
-fixes an existing bug, add the patch as an attachment to that bug
-report.
+Patches should also be submitted to bugzilla.gnome.org. If the
+patch fixes an existing bug, add the patch as an attachment
+to that bug report.
+
+Otherwise, enter a new bug report that describes the patch,
+and attach the patch to that bug report.
+
+Patches should be in unified diff form. (The -up option to GNU diff.)
+
+Release notes for 3.8
+=====================
+
+* GtkIconInfo has changed from being a boxed type to a GObject. This
+ is technically an ABI change, but basically all existing code
+ will keep working if its used as a boxed type, and its not
+ possible to instantiate GtkIconInfos outside Gtk, so this is not
+ expected to be a big problem.
+
+Release notes for 3.6
+=====================
+
+* The accessibility bridge code that exports accessible objects
+ on the bus is now used by default; atk-bridge has been converted
+ into a library that GTK+ links against. To void the linking,
+ pass --without-atk-bridge when configuring GTK+.
+
+* GDK threading support has been deprecated. It is recommended to
+ use g_idle_add(), g_main_context_invoke() and similar funtions
+ to make all GTK+ calls from the main thread.
+
+* GTK+ now follows the XDG Base Directory specification for
+ user configuration and data files. In detail,
+ * $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/custom-papers is the new location
+ for $HOME/.gtk-custom-papers
+ * $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/bookmarks is the new location
+ for $HOME/.gtk-bookmarks
+ * $XDG_DATA_HOME/themes is preferred over $HOME/.themes
+ * $XDG_DATA_HOME/icons is preferred over $HOME/.icons.
+ Existing files from the old location will still be read
+ if the new location does not exist.
+
+* $HOME/.gtk-3.0 is no longer in the default module load path.
+ If you want to load modules from there, add it to the GTK_PATH
+ environment variable.
+
+Release notes for 3.4
+=====================
+
+* Scroll events have been separated from button events, and smooth
+ scrolling has been added with a separate event mask. Widgets now
+ need to have either GDK_SCROLL_MASK or GDK_SMOOTH_SCROLL_MASK in
+ their event mask to receive scroll events. In addition, the
+ GdkScrollDirection enumeration has gained a new member,
+ GDK_SCROLL_SMOOTH, so switch statements will have to be amended
+ to cover this case.
+
+* GTK+ now uses <Primary> instead of <Control> in keyboard accelerators,
+ for improved cross-platform handling. This should not affect
+ applications, unless they parse or create these accelerator
+ manually.
+
+* The tacit assumption that the Alt key corresponds to the MOD1
+ modifier under X11 is now a hard requirement.
+
+* The beagle search backend for the file chooser has been dropped.
+ Tracker is the only supported search backend on Linux now.
+
+* GtkNotebook has been changed to destroy its action widgets when
+ it gets destroyed itself. If your application is using action
+ widgets in notebooks, you may have to adjust your code to take
+ this into account.
+
+* GtkApplication no longer uses the gtk mainloop wrappers, so
+ it is no longer possible to use gtk_main_quit() to stop it.
+
+* The -uninstalled variants of the pkg-config files have been dropped.
+
+* Excessive dependencies have been culled from Requires: lines
+ in .pc files. Dependent modules may have to declare dependencies
+ that there were getting 'for free' in the past.
+
+
+Release notes for 3.2
+=====================
+
+* The accessible implementations for GTK+ widgets have been integrated
+ into libgtk itself, and the gail module does not exist anymore. This
+ change should not affect applications very much.
+
+Release notes for 3.0
+=====================
+
+* GTK+ 3 is a major new version of GTK+, which is parallel installable
+ with GTK+ 2.x. For information about porting applications from GTK+ 2.x
+ to GTK+ 3, see the file:
+
+ docs/reference/gtk/html/migrating.html
+
+ Or online at:
-Otherwise, enter a new bug report that describes the patch, and attach
-the patch to that bug report.
+ http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/3.0/migrating.html
-Bug reports containing patches should include the PATCH keyword in their
-keyword fields. If the patch adds to or changes the GTK+ programming
-interface, the API keyword should also be included.
-
-Patches should be in unified diff form. (The -u option to GNU diff.)
+* Note that the library sonames in this release have been changed from
+ libgtk-3.0 and libgdk-3.0 to libgtk-3 and libgdk-3, to prevent the
+ library versions from going backwards, compared to the 2.90/91/99
+ releases. Applications will have to be recompiled.
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